The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-21
THE PARIS TOWER.
What the Protector of the Gigantic Struc-
ture Has to Say About IL.

| What the Protector of the Gigantic Struc-
ture Has to Say About IL.
| Paris is to have the greatest tower in
the world. after all. NJ. Eiffel's tower.
which the Government has authorized
him to raise on the Champ de Mars,
will dominate all Paris. and surpaS>, in
fact almost double. in height the high
est existing structure. Liberty, To
whom such homage was paid for her
grandeur and greatness. Is but pigmy
of the statue world compared with this
gigantic monsteT. Lord Nelson's mon
ment. London, i 162 feet: Liberty"
New York, 220 feet; 81. PaurS, Lon
don, 800 feet; the Great Pyramid, 100
feet; 81. Peters, of Rome. J07 feet; the
Cologne Cathedral. j32 feet; the Wash
ington Monument. at present the high
est III the world, so feet; and the Paris
| Tower i 900 feet I'm order To find
out what NJ. Eiffel had To say To the
various objections which have been
made to his tower, and To get his
opinion on its utility, called on him
| the other day 1T his works ut LenallOiS-
Perret. To him his great projection is
synonymous with the success of the
exhibition.
They begin 10y declaring" he re-
marked. referring To his adverSalicS,
..that my tower i not French. Ii is
Oi@ enough and clumsy enough for the
English or Americans, but it Is not our
style. they say. We are occupied more
with little artistic biJciOts than giants of
bad taste like Your tower But though we
are occupied most with art and music.
that Is no reason, said he. emphatic
ally, ''why we should not show the
world what we can do in the way of
great engineering projects. And ~
for lis being bad taste, why. ON the con-
trarV, il will he one of the chief orna-
! mcnt> of the town. One of the most
frequent objections made To the towel
il that it i useless. That * another
error. Take It's Importance, for in
stance. from a meteorological point of
view. Ii i not every day that meteor
OlOgi>t> can get up one thousand feet
above the soil. This tower will enable
them 10 study the decrease of temporal
ture ut different heights. To observe the
variations of winds. find out the guam
tity of rain that falls at different
heights and the density of the clouds.
Indeed. in all that relates t0 tempera-
ture. hygrometry, air currents and the
composition of the air, the tower will
afford opportunities for study and re-
search. many of which have hitherto
been impossible. IL will be equally
Useful To- astronomers. Here experience
with the SpcctrOscope can De carried
ON with great facility; the laws of
rcfraction AMI the physical aspects
of the moon. planets and ncbU!a
studied in most favorable conditions. |
have received testimonies from SavantS
on all these points. Then there j.
lis utility from a military point of
view. In the event of another SIEGE of
Paris see how important this tower
would he. Communication could be
kept up by means of optic telegraphy
for a great distance around Paris: for
nilicent panorama extending from l20
To $50 kilOmeterS. Paris bv night, dec
GRATED and illuminated a. il will he
during the exhibition, is sight which
before was only within the reach of
aeronautS. In fact. the tower will be
the chief attraction of the exhibition.
Sir Cunliife Owen remarked tn me Just
the other day: do YOU think that we
English will come to look ut your little
JiLetots and pots of pomade? No, but
we will come in hundreds to see your
tower.
"What If it topple over. NJ. Eiffel?"
There is not the least danger of
that. In our construction of the tower
we have calculated OH the force of the
wind. We have calculated that the
tower will normally withstand wind
pressure of 800 kil0grammes per square
meter, which amounts to total pres
sure of 2,250,000 kilogrammes. We
have made this calculation on the most
favorable hypothesis possible. We
have reckoned the trellis work rs full
walls, and made other allowances.
And as the strongest tempests ever
known in Paris have never been be-
yond a pressure of $50 kilos per square
meter. the tower is perfectly secure.
Should wind bearing force of 800
kilos. arise, little would be left stand
ing in Paris. but the tower. Paris Cor.
Pail Mail Gazette.